What is the canvas?
The canvas is your collaborative workspace for your drawings and documents. It is where you can review and mark up drawings and documents.
1. Markup tools can be accessed at the top of the canvas. Tools can also accessed via, and saved to, Favorites.
2. The buttons on the LHS provide easy access to information relating to this drawing like comments, issues, layers and the drawing's markup list.
3. Users can also perform various functions via the canvas including comparing drawings revisions, choosing which contributors' markups display, adding grids to your drawings and accessing saved markups via the Markup library.
Snapshot of the Drawboard Projects canvas
From the canvas users can
- Access and use markup tools
- Add tools to Favorites for quick access
- View, sort and filter the drawing's annotations via Markup list
- Add, manage and work in private and public Markup Layers
- Add and view Issues on the drawing
- Add and view Comments on the drawing
- Overlay drawing revisions
- Access regularly used markups via the Markup library
- Add contributors and easily see which markups have been applied by which contributor
- Apply grids and lines to the drawing
- Access page and markup controls including snapping, zoom, undo and redo and navigate to next or previous drawing.
Markup tools
From the canvas, users can mark up drawings using various tools. Users can customize their tools by changing the color, thickness, opacity and more.
Accessing your tools
❶ Freehand tools including pen and eraser
❷ Shapes and lines including arrows, polyline, rectangle, ellipse, polygon and cloud
❸ Measurement tools including length, polygon area and rectangle area
❹ Insert images, text, callouts and stamps
Set the properties of a tool
Users can set the properties of their tools including color, thickness, opacity and more. The tool menu offers a few preset properties to help users work faster. Easily select from the color and thickness presets or choose from options by opening the full color set or thickness dropdown.
Access more tool properties
To access all properties for a tool, ensure that the tool is selected and then tap the 3 dots in the tool menu.
Change the viewing mode of the Markup tools menu
There are two main viewing modes for the Markup tools menu: 1 bar mode and 2 bar mode.
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1 bar mode
All tools can be accessed conveniently from a single bar menu. Perfect for maximizing visibility on the canvas. To access tools in this mode, select between the tool category icons. -
2 bar mode
Tools can be accessed from a 2 bar menu. In this mode, users can see the tool category labels at all times.
To switch between 1 bar mode and 2 bar mode, tap the icon in the top right corner of the canvas.
Using Favorites
Users can favorite tools to provide quick access to the tools they use regularly.
Adding a tool to Favorites
There are two ways to add a tool to your Favorites
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From the Favorites bar
- Tap the plus icon on the Favorites bar
- Navigate to the tool you would like to add and then either drag the tool to Favorites or tap the plus icon on the tool to add it to Favorites
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From the Markup tools menu
- Navigate to the tool that you would like to add to Favorites
- Tap the Add to Favorites icon
Moving the Favorites bar
To move the bar to a new position, click and drag the Drawboard Projects on the Favorites bar. The Favorites bar can be placed in a floating position on the right, top or left of the canvas, or it can be docked to the right of the canvas.
Hiding the Favorites bar and Markup tools
There are two ways to hide the Favorites bar:
- Tap the Favorites icon in the top right of the canvas
- Tap the toolbar settings in the LHS panel and then toggle off Favorites
To hide the Markup tools menu, tap the toolbar settings in the LHS panel and then toggle off Markup tools.
Navigate to other drawings via the canvas
From the canvas, users can navigate to other drawings within a project by tapping the next arrow and previous arrow in the top left of the canvas.